James Brophy

James Brophy

First Name: 
James
Last Name: 
Brophy
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Professor (Status-Only)
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​James M. Brophy specializes in modern European history, particularly the social and political history of nineteenth-century Germany. He received his B.A. from Vassar College, did graduate training at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, and took his Ph.D. from Indiana University. He has written Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Prussia, 1830-1870 (Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1998) and Popular Culture and the Public Sphere in the Rhineland, 1800-1850 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007) as well as co-edited Perspectives from the Past: Sources in Western Civilization (New York: W.W. Norton, 1998; 7th ed., 2020).   He is currently at work on Print Circuits and Political Dissent: Publishers in Central Europe, 1800-1870 (under contract with Oxford University Press).

Personal Website: 
https://www.history.udel.edu/people/faculty/jbrophy

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University of Delaware, Department of History